Customization Form
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The Customization Form is used to manage toolbar item layouts, to customize item and category properties, to determine toolbar behavior, etc. Use the Customization Form for runtime and design-time toolbar customization.
Design-Time Customization
Runtime Customization
Common Visual Elements
Design-Time Customization
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To display the Customization Form, double-click the TdxBarManager component, or right-click it and select Customization Form… from the popup menu.
The Customization Form allows you to:
create, delete, rename and hide toolbars;
manage toolbar content (by creating or removing toolbar items or creating item controls for existing items and placing them on toolbars);
control the layout and appearance aspects of toolbars (MRU functionality, large icons on toolbar items, etc.);
determine toolbar behavior (menu animation, item tooltips, etc.);
access all existing toolbars and toolbar items, and customize their properties via the Object Inspector;
organize toolbar items in categories;
group toolbar items.
Runtime Customization
Click a page or the corresponding link below to learn more about it.
The Customization Form can be displayed by clicking Customize… in a toolbar’s popup menu or by calling the Customizing method of a bar manager.
The Customization Form allows end-users to:
create, delete, rename and hide toolbars;
control the layout and appearance aspects of toolbars (MRU functionality, large icons on toolbar items, etc.);
reset toolbars;
create item controls of existing toolbar items, and place them on toolbars;
customize toolbar items via their popup menus.
Common Visual Elements
The ExpressBars Suite allows you to display custom help topics for the Customization Form by clicking the 
button. By default, this button is invisible. To make it visible, set the bar manager’s ShowHelpButton property to True. To associate a help topic with this button and to specify a bitmap for it, use the HelpContext and HelpButtonGlyph properties, respectively.
To close the Customization Form, press the Close button.